Greece

 On July 11th the kids and I decided to get on a military hop to Greece.  Curtis had been gone all week taking a class for his Masters.  Since we wouldn't see him much all week, we decided to take the opportunity to go somewhere new.  It was only a 3 day trip but was a great experience.

 Jake and Nick were put on camera duty so these pictures are some of the ones that they thought were important to document our trip.  They did a pretty good job.

 We were on the island of Crete.  It is much bigger than Terceira, where we live.

 We visited a major city called Chania. 

We got on a glass-bottom boat for a cruise around the area in the Mediterranian Sea.

 It was HOT!

 Here is a little shrine on a little island in  the Mediterranian for St. Nicholas.  This is where the people brought their sick and dying.

 The heat zapped us.  Air conditioning didn't seem to work well enough.

 We got lost driving around and eventually found our way to a little beach.  The water was warm and lovely.

We definitely plan on going back another time.  Maybe in a month not as warm as July though.  We can't wait to show Curtis everything that we saw.